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Haweswater Railway
locality:-   Hawes Water
civil parish:-   Shap Rural (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   railway
locality type:-   narrow gauge railway
10Km square:-   NY51
1Km square:-   NY5010
10Km square:-   NY51

hearsay:-  
An 8 mile line was planned to lead from the LNWR main line, Lancaster to Carlisle Railway, just north of the granite quarry, Shap, to the site of the Hawes Water dam, when it was being built. There was also to be a branch to a dam site in Swindale. Neither ofthese were ever built.

Bowtell, Harold D: 1977: Reservoir Railways of Manchester and The Peak: Oakwood Press (Blandform, Dorset):: ISBN 0 85361 207 2

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